cavilling
31sarcastic — Synonyms and related words: Rabelaisian, acerb, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, captious, carping, caustic, cavilling, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, corrosive, critical, cutting, cynical, derisive,… …
32cavil — cav|il [ˈkævəl] v past tense and past participle cavilled present participle cavilling BrE past tense and past participle caviled present participle caviling AmE [i]formal [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: cavillari to …
33cavil — [[t]kæ̱v(ə)l[/t]] cavils, cavilling, cavilled VERB: no passive (disapproval) If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary. [FORMAL] Since the government has… …
34wowser — The term wowser surely one of the most impressive and expressive of Australian coinages is used to express healthy contempt for those who attempt to force their own morality on everyone. The person who abstains from alcohol (for whatever reason)… …
35cavil — [ kav(ə)l] verb (cavils, cavilling, cavilled; US cavils, caviling, caviled) make petty or unnecessary objections. noun a petty or unnecessary objection. Derivatives caviller noun …
36captious — a. 1. Censorious, cavilling, carping, hypercritical, disposed to cavil, given to fault finding. 2. Crabbed, snappish, testy, touchy, waspish, splenetic, cross, snarling, acrimonious, cantankerous (colloq.), contentious. 3. Ensnaring, insidious …
37contentious — a. 1. Quarrelsome, cross, petulant, perverse, pugnacious, litigious, wrangling. 2. Disputatious, captious, cavilling …
38critical — a. 1. Exact, nice, accurate. 2. Censorious, carping, cavilling, captious. 3. Determining, decisive, crucial, turning, important. 4. Dangerous, hazardous, imminent, momentous, dubious, precarious, ticklish …
39disputatious — a. Cavilling, captious, contentious, quarrelsome, polemical …
40eristic — a.; (also eristical) (Not used of persons.) 1. Controversial, polemic (al), controversive, disputative. 2. Entangling, catching, entrapping, posing, perplexing, embarrassing. 3. Cavilling, captious, disputations …
